[AT] Burn-outs like you've never seen 'em!

Wed Nov 14 13:33:53 PST 2012

Allis Chalmers Mattias.

Charlie

-----Original Message----- 
From: Mattias Kessén
Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2012 4:03 PM
To: Antique tractor email discussion group
Subject: Re: [AT] Burn-outs like you've never seen 'em!

AC?

Air Condition?

Mattias
Den 14 nov 2012 21:52 skrev "charlie hill" <charliehill at embarqmail.com>:

> LOL yeah but didn't bother.  Heck I thought I was the only one left on 
> this
> list that cared about AC stuff.  grins.
>
> Charlie
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tom
> Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2012 3:10 PM
> To: Antique tractor email discussion group
> Subject: Re: [AT] Burn-outs like you've never seen 'em!
>
> Haven't ya heard of a scanner yet Charlie: :-)
>
> Tom
>
> --- On Thu, 15/11/12, charlie hill <charliehill at embarqmail.com> wrote:
>
> From: charlie hill <charliehill at embarqmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [AT] Burn-outs like you've never seen 'em!
> To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com
> >
> Date: Thursday, 15, November, 2012, 8:57 AM
>
> Good to hear from you Tom.
> I had the same information but was too busy/lazy or both to type it all.
> grins.
>
> Charlie
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tom
> Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2012 2:02 PM
> To: Antique tractor email discussion group
> Subject: Re: [AT] Burn-outs like you've never seen 'em!
>
> Been a while...
>
> I think a fuller explanation of the speed issue is required:
>
> I the early 30s Allis Chalmers were promoting low pressure rubber tyres 
> and
> encountering resistance. Then:
>
> "The tractor division realized that it would have to do something
> spectacular to break down resistance to and build public acceptance for
> air
> tires.. Because most tractors were unable to go more than five miles an
> hour, W. Elzey Brown of the advertising department thought of speed
> racing.
> Special high speed gears were installed in stock models of the Model "U"
> tractor, and the first public speed test was made at the State Fair race
> track at West Allis on June 18, 1933. Frank Brisko, a famous local driver
> who had recently competed in the Memorial Day classic at the Indianapolis
> Speedway, was the star in the auto races. The spectators could hardly
> believe their eyes when an Allis-Chalmers tractor, which had been plowing
> in
> the infield of the race track, was unhooked from the plow, turned over to
> Frank Brisko and then driven against time at 35.4 miles per hour. The
> effect
> was sensational. During the remainder of the summer, similar tractor races
> were
> advertised as attractions at many state fairs. The high point in this
> series
> of demonstrations occurred at Dallas, Texas, on September 17, 1933, when
> Barney Oldfield, the veteran automobile racer, drove a Model "U" air-tired
> tractor over a measured mile course at 64.28 miles an hour. The first man
> to
> drive an automobile at more than 60 miles an hour had also become the 
> first
> man to drive a tractor at more than a mile a minute. Because this event 
> was
> sanctioned by the American Automobile Association and timed by its
> officials, it became an official A. A. A. record. In 1933 alone, more than
> one million people saw these tractor races, and they were, in fact,
> repeated
> by popular demand for several years. With such famous drivers as Barney
> Oldfield, Lou Meyer, Floyd Roberts and Ab Jenkins, the tractor races were
> given top billing at many fairs."
>
>                      "An Industrial Heritage" Walter E Peterson, Allis
> Chalmers Corporation, 1975
>
> Tom
>
> --- On Thu, 15/11/12, charlie hill <charliehill at embarqmail.com> wrote:
>
> From: charlie hill <charliehill at embarqmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [AT] Burn-outs like you've never seen 'em!
> To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com
> >
> Date: Thursday, 15, November, 2012, 12:37 AM
>
> Barney Oldfield's record run was 64 mph.  Set in Sept. of 1933 on a
> specially prepared AC U.
>
> Charlie
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chuck Bealke
> Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2012 1:57 AM
> To: Antique tractor email discussion group
> Subject: Re: [AT] Burn-outs like you've never seen 'em!
>
> Thanks, Mattias.
>
> This guys turning his plowing machine into a racer reminded me of:
> 1) Barney Oldfield's AC tractor (perhaps slower than the Terror)
> promotion gig
>
> http://www.firstsuperspeedway.com/articles/barney-oldfield-sets-tractor-record
> and
> 2) Lamborghini unsuccessfully suggesting his tractor transmission to
> Enzo Ferrari
> http://www.pixcom.dk/Lamborghini/story.htm   .
>
> Age test:  Would you like to drive the Terror?
>
> And Ralph, thanks for the Roosty video link.  Am getting to recognize
> parts of your path across the fields and am guessing that bull is a Red
> Poll.
>
>
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